Quantum Simulation, Dynamics, and Thermalization

Presentations

• CaRBM: A Fixed-Depth Quantum Algorithm with Partial Correction for Thermal State Preparation

  Oral-In-person

  March 19, 2026, 8:00 AM – March 19, 2026, 8:12 AM

  Presenters

  • Omar Alsheikh

    • North Carolina State University

  Authors

  • Omar Alsheikh

    • North Carolina State University

  • Alexander Kemper

    • North Carolina State University

  • Ermal Rrapaj

    • University of California, Berkeley

  • Evan Rule

    • University of California, Berkeley

  • Goksu Toga

    • North Carolina State University

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• Quantum simulation of the classical XY Hamiltonian using a quantum Gibbs sampler

  Oral-In-person

  March 19, 2026, 8:12 AM – March 19, 2026, 8:24 AM

  Presenters

  • Sehmimul Hoque

    • University of Waterloo

  Authors

  • Sehmimul Hoque

    • University of Waterloo

  • Mariia Sobchuk

    • Institute for Quantum Computing (IQC)

  • Ala Shayeghi

  • Pooya Ronagh

    • University of Waterloo

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• Cooling the Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev model

  Oral-In-person

  March 19, 2026, 8:24 AM – March 19, 2026, 8:36 AM

  Presenters

  • Bryce Kobrin

    • Google Quantum AI

  Authors

  • Bryce Kobrin

    • Google Quantum AI

  • Thomas Schuster

    • Caltech

  • Vincent Su

    • University of California, Berkeley

  • Hugo Marrochio

  • Norman Yao

    • Harvard University

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• Demonstration of Quantum Capability in Ground-State and XAFS Simulations on Real Quantum Devices

  Oral-In-person

  March 19, 2026, 8:36 AM – March 19, 2026, 8:48 AM

  Publication: arXiv:2505.08612

  Presenters

  • Yu-ichiro Matsushita

    • The University of Tokyo

  Authors

  • Yu-ichiro Matsushita

    • The University of Tokyo

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• Quantum Imaginary Time Evolution for Procedural Content Generation

  Oral-In-person

  March 19, 2026, 8:48 AM – March 19, 2026, 9:00 AM

  Publication: P. Fromholz and J. R. Wootton, in preparation

  Presenters

  • Pierre Fromholz

  Authors

  • James Wootton

    • Moth Quantum

  • Pierre Fromholz

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• Estimating Green's functions with a quantum Arnoldi method

  Oral-In-person

  March 19, 2026, 9:00 AM – March 19, 2026, 9:12 AM

  Presenters

  • Jacob Nelson

    • University of New Mexico

  Authors

  • Jacob Nelson

    • University of New Mexico

  • Andrew Baczewski

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• Analyzing the Impact of Statistical Noise on Quantum Imaginary-Time Evolution for Infinite 1D Systems

  Oral-In-person

  March 19, 2026, 9:12 AM – March 19, 2026, 9:24 AM

  Presenters

  • Ying-Jer Kao

    • National Taiwan University

  Authors

  • Ying-Jer Kao

    • National Taiwan University

  • Hao-Ti Hung

    • National Taiwan University

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• Strong to Weak Symmetry Breaking in Free Fermion Systems

  Oral-In-person

  March 19, 2026, 9:24 AM – March 19, 2026, 9:36 AM

  Presenters

  • Tabin Dharanikota

    • University of Washington

  Authors

  • Tabin Dharanikota

    • University of Washington

  • Lukasz Fidkowski

    • University of Washington

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• Optimizing two-dimensional isometric tensor networks with quantum computers

  Oral-In-person

  March 19, 2026, 9:36 AM – March 19, 2026, 9:48 AM

  Publication: An Arxiv preprint based on this work will appear before the meeting.

  Presenters

  • Alberto Baiardi

    • IBM Research Europe

  Authors

  • Alberto Baiardi

    • IBM Research Europe

  • Sebastian Leontica

  • Julian Schuhmacher

    • École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)

  • Francesco Tacchino

    • IBM Research - Zurich

  • Ivano Tavernelli

    • IBM Research - Zurich

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• Stability of quantum chaos against weak nonunitarity

  Oral-In-person

  March 19, 2026, 9:48 AM – March 19, 2026, 10:00 AM

  Presenters

  • Yi-Cheng Wang

    • University of California, Berkeley

  Authors

  • Yi-Cheng Wang

    • University of California, Berkeley

  • Ehud Altman

    • University of California, Berkeley

  • Samuel Garratt

    • University of California, Berkeley

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• Pauli and Majorana Propagation methods for classically simulating quantum circuits

  Invited-In-person · Invited

  March 19, 2026, 10:00 AM – March 19, 2026, 10:36 AM

  Publication: This talk will give an overview of the following works: arxiv:2308.09109, arXiv:2408.12739, arXiv:2409.01706, arXiv:2411.19896, arXiv:2501.13101, arXiv:2503.18939, arXiv:2505.21606.

  Presenters

  • Zoe Holmes

    • EPFL

  Authors

  • Zoe Holmes

    • EPFL

  • Manuel Rudolph

    • EPFL

  • Armando Angrisani

  • Marco Cerezo

    • Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL)

  • Tyson Jones

  • Yanting Teng

    • Harvard University

  • Hsin-Yuan Huang

    • Caltech

  • Alexander Schmidhuber

    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  • Antonio Anna Mele

  • Sacha Lerch

  • Supanut Thanasilp

    • Natl Univ of Singapore

  • Ricard Puig

  • Guillermo García Perez

  • Adam Glos

  • Aaron Miller

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